Moxibustion at st36 alleviates pain in complete Freund's adjuvant-induced arthritic rats

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-67

  Kim, Jae Hyo ^a,b   Kim, Hee Kee ^b   Park, Yong Il ^a   Sohn, In Churl ^a   Choi, Dong Ok ^c   Kim, Min Sun ^c   Park, Byung Rim ^c  

^a Wonkwang University   (South Korea)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c Wonkwang University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adjuvant induced arthritis; Antinociception; Moxibustion

Indexed keywords

FREUND ADJUVANT; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTEIN C FOS; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOXIBUSTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DISEASE MODEL; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, EXPERIMENTAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; HINDLIMB; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOXIBUSTION; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 32544454024     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X06003631     Document Type: Article

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